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"Huh? Kanae is here too. Is she here to supervise my work? Don't worry, she can't escape now."
Xia Yan greeted Kocho Kanae with a smile.
At the same time, as if to prove his point, he hooked his foot and kicked Bingye's head out, sending it crashing into a thick tree trunk on the opposite side.
After bouncing off, the ghost head landed precisely in Xia Yan's hand.
Xia Yan held Bing Ye's head from below with both hands, stuck out his index finger and poked at the corner of Bing Ye's mouth, trying to force a distorted smile for Kocho Kanae to see.
Looking at the sick leaf that Xia Yan was completely at his mercy, a hint of sympathy flashed in Kanae's eyes.
"That's so outrageous... Why would anyone do something like that?"
"Why? Because it's fun, of course."
"You don't actually have any sympathy for the demon, do you? This guy is one of the Twelve Demon Moons, and even though he's only the Lower Moon Six, he must have eaten a lot of people to become this strong, right?"
When faced with Kanae Butterfly's question, Natsuhiko simply shrugged indifferently.
"In that case, wouldn't it be better to just cut off his head? There's no need to torture him like this. Do you really find pleasure in doing something like this?"
"Hey, woman! It's no use. This man's heart is a monster darker and more terrifying than a ghost! If you really pity me, then don't hesitate to kill me! I'll be grateful to you in hell!!"
Seeing that Kanae Butterfly seemed to want to persuade Natsuhiko with words, Byakuya said with a hint of pleading.
This action made Kanae Butterfly's eyes widen.
She simply couldn't imagine what a lower-ranking demon of the Twelve Demon Moons had gone through to beg someone to kill him.
However, considering that she was not skilled enough to take the demon's life from Natsuhiko, and that as the Flower Pillar of the Demon Slayer Corps, she could not possibly attack Natsuhiko for the sake of a demon.
Kanae Kocho hesitated for a moment, then looked at Natsuhiko once more.
Chapter Sixty: I Don't Accept My Friends' Advice
“Xia Yanjun, don’t you think you’re being a little cruel… He was human before he became a demon.”
"Of course I know that ghosts are actually people in disguise."
Xia Yan looked at Kocho Kanae with some surprise, wondering what the point of her saying such a thing was.
But then he suddenly realized what was going on.
"You think I would do something like this if I hated ghosts, right? Don't worry, I'm not a racist. To me, ghosts and people are the same."
"If anyone angers me, I will treat them like a ghost!"
"That's even more unacceptable!"
Upon hearing Xia Yan's words, Kocho Kanae waved her hand in a flustered manner, looking quite troubled, as if she was trying to figure out how to persuade Xia Yan to turn over a new leaf.
His flustered appearance made Xia Yan's lips curl into a slight smile.
Xia Yan knew that Kocho Kanae was a gentle and kind person who even felt sympathy for demons and hoped that demons and humans could live in peace.
The breathing technique used is the gentlest flower breathing.
The demons beheaded by the Flower Breathing technique will smell a light, ethereal floral fragrance in the moments before they die, and their movements will be extremely gentle.
It can even make ghosts feel a heavenly warmth before they die.
However, no one expected that she, as the Flower Pillar of the Demon Slayer Corps, would plead for one of the Twelve Demon Moons.
No wonder Gyomei Himejima, the Stone Pillar, described her as being too gentle.
In truth, Xia Yan could find little amusement left in Bingye; her mutilated body held no value for him whatsoever.
Although it is easy for them to find each other, the Twelve Demon Moons generally do not actively contact each other except when they launch a bloodbath.
It's impossible to expect to learn the whereabouts of the other twelve demon moons from him right now.
It's simply impossible to find Muzan's whereabouts through him.
So it's not a bad thing to go along with Kanae's request and gain some goodwill in the process.
But Xia Yan suddenly wanted to know just how far the other party would go for a ghost.
Thinking of this, Xia Yan looked at Kocho Kanae with a smile, slightly anticipating what this gentle woman would say and do next.
Kanae Kocho naturally had no idea what Natsuhiko was thinking, but she didn't want to give up just like that.
She did not forgive the ghost's evil deeds; in fact, she hated the ghost's evil deeds even more than ordinary people, but that did not prevent her from feeling sympathy for the ghost.
"Um, Xia Yanjun."
"I don't know what happened to you in the past. This request may be a bit excessive, and you may not understand it."
"But could you please just kill the demons cleanly and decisively in the future, instead of torturing them? Demons are actually pitiful beings too..."
In Kanae's mind, the culprit behind these tragedies was ultimately Muzan Kibutsuji, while the other demons were merely people worthy of sympathy, turned into demons by Muzan.
In her heart, becoming a ghost was a painful thing in itself, and it was something to be pitied.
While she hated the man-eating demons, she also felt sympathy for those who had been turned into ghosts.
Therefore, she would not hesitate to release the ghost.
"What is this? An order from the Demon Slayer Corps' 'Flower Pillar'?"
Xia Yan asked with a hint of wicked humor, his gaze towards Kanae Butterfly filled with a slightly malicious expectation.
Knowing Kanae's character well, he could already imagine her flustered explanation.
"No, no, no, it's just a suggestion!!"
As expected, upon hearing Xia Yan's words, Kocho Kanae hurriedly tried to explain, fearing that Xia Yan might have any unnecessary misunderstandings about the Demon Slayer Corps.
Her flustered appearance added a touch of adorable clumsiness to Kanae Butterfly's usual gentle demeanor, making her even more endearing.
"Xia Yanjun would do something like this because he has a painful past. Although I don't know what happened, if he keeps dwelling on the pain of the past, he will never be able to move on..."
"If it's a suggestion, I won't accept it."
Before Kanae Butterfly could finish speaking, Natsuhiko interrupted her rudely.
"Eh, how could this be..." Kanae Kocho's surprise was mixed with a hint of disappointment.
She expected her suggestion to be rejected, but she didn't expect it to be rejected so readily.
In what capacity did you give me this advice?
"Huh!? Friends...isn't that okay?"
Kanae Butterfly glanced at Natsuhiko with a somewhat timid expression.
"Oh, a friend?"
"I only accept advice from my family..."
Xia Yan repeated the word softly as he walked towards Kanae Butterfly.
Under Kanae's surprised and slightly flustered gaze, he gently lifted her chin, leaned down, and softly blew a breath into her ear.
"Phew—that includes my wife too..."
puff.
Upon hearing Xia Yan's words, Kocho Kanae's face flushed red with embarrassment, looking as delightful as a ripe tomato.
Chapter Sixty-One: Evil spirits are stubbornly dead and refuse to eat dog food.
The whispers in her ear instantly threw Kanae Butterfly into a state of utter confusion.
Why would Xia Yanjun suddenly say something like that to me?
'Is he implying something to me?'
'How should I answer? It's so embarrassing...'
Why now?!
"Calm down...Calm down..."
Kanae's mind was filled with a myriad of emotions.
She couldn't help but recall what had happened at the Butterfly Mansion training ground. Steam even visibly rose from her forehead, and her eyes became ringed with mosquito coils.
It looks adorable, like the brain is overloaded and the CPU is smoking.
Bingye, who witnessed the whole thing, watched as the two, who were normally discussing whether he was going to live or die, suddenly found the atmosphere becoming romantic, as if it were heading in the direction of falling in love.
For some reason, Bingye felt like she had become a stray dog walking down the street, unwanted by anyone.
I was slapped for no reason and then stuffed with a mouthful of sour, stinky dog food.
My stomach feels heavy.
I was chased all night and haven't even had a hot meal yet, but now I inexplicably feel full.
This feeling was even harder for him to accept than the humiliation he had just suffered at the hands of Xia Yan.
I asked you to come and free me, not to torture me even more!
But what can one do with just a head left? One can't even end one's own life.
Why the hell did I ever become a ghost?!
Now you can't even die if you want to!
Muzan Kibutsuji, you fucking deserve to die!!!
Byōha felt an unprecedented hatred for his identity as a demon, and for the culprit who turned him into a demon—Kibutsuji Muzan.
Um?and many more!
Isn't there a way to commit suicide even when you only have a head left?
Thinking of this, an excited glint flashed in Bingye's eyes.
He recalled what Muzan had once said about the curse he left inside every demon.
"Kibutsuji Muzan! You fucking deserve to die!!!"
After shouting those words, intense pain swept through the entire body of the diseased leaf, and every cell in its body seemed to be dying abnormally at a rapid pace.